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Our faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate majors are uncovering the structure of language using cutting-edge methods such as ultrasound imaging and eye-tracking. We are showing that texts, sentences, words, consonants, and vowels observe principles that are not apparent to the naked ear. These principles create the potential for more efficient legal systems, more successful educational environments, new therapies for people who struggle with speaking and listening, and next-generation technologies in web search and speech recognition. Learn more about what UWM linguists are doing!
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Department News
- Graduate Program Info Session, Nov 3The UWM Linguistics Graduate Program will host a Virtual Information Session Tuesday, November 3, 2026 8:00 AM Central Standard Time (UTC -06:00) Join us …
- UWM linguists at Mid-Phon conferenceThree doctoral students presented at the Mid-Phon 31 conference held at St. Louis University in October 16-17, 2026. The titles of the talks are: …
- Ouali to appear in The Linguistic ReviewProfessor Hamid Ouali's article entitled "On Dative Clitic Doubling as Applicative Morphology: Insights from Tamazight" has been accepted for publication in The Linguistic Review. …
- UWM Linguists at LSA 2027UWM Linguistics will be well represented at the 2027 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, taking place Jan 6–9 in San Francisco. …
